Mein verrücktes Jahr in Bangkok (2012)

Sabine Kremer is thrilled. Her husband, Christof, is a successful business consultant and is supposed to live in Bangkok for a year. As a fan of the Thai metropolis, she can hardly wait. But her excitement soon gives way to the sobering reality. To begin with, all of her luggage goes missing, the driver is late, and the promised townhouse in an elegant colonial style is a construction site. Sabine is left to cope with the hectic chaos on her own, since her husband is swamped with work. Their daughter Emma, on the other hand, loves the unfamiliar surroundings and enjoys the change of scene. Sabine, too, gradually makes contact with the locals. She befriends Lilly, a Chinese woman who is the mother of one of Emma’s classmates. Through Lilly, Sabine learns more about the country’s cultural idiosyncrasies. Christof, meanwhile, has entirely different problems. He cannot communicate with his company. All the employees speak only Thai. And his German contact, Jochen Zimmermann, is afraid for his job, so he sabotages all of Christof’s plans. His situation improves only when he hires Eleanor, a beautiful Thai woman, as his personal interpreter. But Sabine quickly notices that Eleanor flirts very openly with her husband, which she absolutely dislikes. When Christof and Eleanor then go on a business trip lasting several days, Eleanor sees her chance. Meanwhile, Sabine tries to fend off Christof’s client, Herbert Dollmann, who has developed a crush on her.